Pink Ice is the ninth cartoon produced in the Pink Panther series. A total of 124 6-minute cartoons were produced between 1964 and 1980.

Plot

The Pink Panther owns a diamond mine

Diamond Mine

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 in South Africa and manages to unearth a large stone. Though he has safely locked the diamond

Diamond

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 away, a crooked pair of rival miners, named Devereaux (with the vocal mimmicking in the style of Alfred Hitchcock

Alfred Hitchcock

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) and Hoskins, operating the neighboring mine steal the panther's discovery. Devereaux and Hoskins then try to dispose of the Pink Panther, but fail miserably.

Notability

Pink Ice represents one of only two shorts in which the feline is given dialogue. Whereas the panther had a single line of dialogue in Sink Pink

Sink Pink

Sink Pink is the fifth cartoon produced in the Pink Panther series. A total of 124 6-minute cartoons were produced between 1964 and 1980.-Plot:An eccentric man has builds an ark and has it filled with specimens of all animals except a pink panther...

, he is given extensive dialogue in Pink Ice. Friz Freleng

Friz Freleng

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 soon realized that the feline was more appealing as a sophisticated mute, and discontinued the talking panther for the remainder of the series.

The voice was supplied by impressionist Rich Little

Rich Little

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 impersonating English actor David Niven

David Niven

James David Graham Niven , known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther...

, complete with British accent. Niven's sophisticated vocal style was chosen for the Pink Panther, as he portrayed diamond thief Sir Charles Lytton (aka, the Phantom) in the original Pink Panther

The Pink Panther (1963 film)

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film with Peter Sellers

Peter Sellers

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.

The Pink Panther speaks these lines:

• "Gophers?"
• "By any chance, have you seen any gophers with diamonds in?"
• "They just could be trying to hide something."
• "And this isn't quite cricket."
• "Can you imagine those fellows leaving things like this lying around?"
• "My what a beauty!"
• "It's a good thing I carry a small shovel with me just for these sort of emergencies."
• "They say a rolling stone gathers no moss. We wouldn't want a beautiful stone like this to gather moss, would we?"

Further sources

• The Pink Panther Classic Cartoon Collection http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0009S4J2I (2006). [DVD set]. New York: MGM Home Video.

External links

• Pink Ice at the Internet Movie Database
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